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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III SOFTOOL 1831-1840 School ? School-life ? Eton ? Dr. Goodall, the Provost?The Head Master, Hawtrey ? William IV ? Queen Victoria ? Schoolmates. To return to Friar Street, Reading, and the little boy. At eight years old I was sent, as the custom then was, to a boarding school. Being sickly, I was sent to one on the Downs, near Bath, for the sake of the air. The air did me good; so perhaps did the idleness. The master was an ex-Lieutenant of Marines who had taken Orders. He knew little, and did not attempt to teach us much. School was over at one. After dinner we went to the playing-field or were taken to the Downs, where we collected fossils, butterflies, and plants. My little brain rested, my health improved; perhaps I owe it to those fallow years that, having set out with a very weak constitution, I am able to do some work at eighty-four. I sometimes say that if I have outlived four successors in my Chair of History at Oxford, I owe it to having been at two idle schools, as both Monkton Farley and Eton were. Speaking seriously, are not the brains of childrenoverworked ? I suffered, however, from want of early grounding. Though the school was expensive, our fare was such as any English boy, still more any American boy, at the present day would regard with disgust. For breakfast we had three squares of bread and butter and a mug of tea. For dinner we had one helping of meat and one of pudding. The supper was the same as the breakfast. However, in five years I never was in bed for sickness, nor do I remember that any one of my schoolmates was. The custom of sending children to boarding-schools was, however, rather cruel. The child had not a little to suffer by severance from his home; his home affections were deadened; he was early familiarized and too oft...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217983969 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217983960 |
| Weight | 0.97 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 In |
| List Price | $20.77 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 298 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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